A 13-year-old Lakewood girl who suddenly went into cardiac arrest while in class several weeks ago has been released from the hospital.
The girl, Chaya Malka bas Batsheva Stern, was administered lifesaving CPR by her teacher and then by Hatzolah members who were able to get a pulse back.
She was brought to Jersey Shore University Medical Center and then choppered out to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
On motzei shabbos, she was finally discharged.
The girl’s parents released the following message:
Good Vuch. Nisim V’niflaos! We were just discharged from the hospital, and heading home with our precious daughter Chaya Malka! We are overwhelmed with Shevach V’hodah to the Rebono Shel Olam! There are no words or expression that can be articulated, to thank everyone for carrying us in your hearts and Tefilos, over the past few weeks. We still have a long road ahead of us, but we are confident that with your continued Tefilos, Chaya Malka will have a full Refua. It is our fervent hope, that all the Zechusim that were generated over the past few weeks, will help bring the ultimate Geula that we so badly need. With Hashem’s help, we hope this will be our last update. Please continue to Daven for all the Cholim in K’lal Yisroel (which over the past 3 weeks, we have met way too many).
With hearts filled with gratitude and love,
Zevi and Shevy Stern and Family
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
27 Responses
Was she vaxxed?
For all of human history until very very recently, children never got heart attacks. What changed? It wouldn’t be a waste of time to do a little bit of investigation to determine whether she has been a participant in the ongoing genetics experiments. I am very grateful I followed the opinion of the Rambam not to take meds from a non-Yisroel except when at risk of death, and statistically I am not at risk of death from the flu.
People still don’t see any correlation between the vaccines and sudden heart attacks, both in youngsters and adults??
We need so much Rachmei Shomayim. We must show HKB”H, the Creator of all beings, that we are not a selfish Nation; we beg for a Refuah not only for ourselves,but for every decent Human Being.
was she vaccinated?
all those stories published by YWN which prominently stated illness when someone was not vaxxed.
And here is a story of note (children getting heart attacks) that does not mentions she was vaccinated.
a person can only conclude that she was vaccinated.
and again the bias in YWN reporting.
@a Wise Guy, She was NOT vaxxed. So it had nothing to do with this. The Lakewood Scoop had an article about this from the family saying this. Per the family please stop this misinformation!!
Get vaxxed, but eat healthily including on שבת ויום-טוב and don’t EVER smoke.
I’m not determining what was the cause here or not just putting in opinion. I wish her and all cholai Yisrael a refuah shalama.
Unfortunately today the food that people eat has so much chemicals and garbage in. This is one of the them many reason that teenages are getting diabetes, cholesterol, heart attacks at a much younger age. you can look it up. They say one of the things that is very dangerous( I don’t know why they still put it in food) is hydrated oils they say it’s a leading cause for so many health problems in young adults (look carefully almost all peanut butter spreads have hydrated oil except if it’s natural) I will not buy anything that has hydrated oils or AKA shortening that is another way to call it. I’m not a health fanatic but I do try to do my best and try to take additional 5 minutes in the store and reading the ingredients if you can’t read the ingredient most likely your body can’t either and aka it’s not healthy for you
Schmendrick says: “For all of human history until very very recently, children never got heart attacks.”
That is just not true. Not true AT ALL. Teenagers’ hearts stopping suddenly has ALWAYS been a thing that happens occasionally. Now we have an additional factor, so we have to ask whether the incidence of unexplained teenage cardiac arrest has gone up or remained stable (or even gone down?). If it hasn’t gone up then we can’t blame the vaccine. If it’s gone up, and done so by enough that we can rule out a statistical fluke, then we can blame the vaccine, but we still won’t know in any specific instance whether the vaccine did it, just as we can never know whether any individual smoker’s lung cancer was caused by his smoking, or he would have got it anyway.
Rif, we don’t have the statistics to know whether there is a correlation (let alone whether there’s also a causation). Even in this instance we don’t know whether this girl was vaccinated; what will you say if she wasn’t? All we have are isolated anecdotes, and we can’t do anything useful with those until they’re gathered into an authoritative statistic. And the authorities we rely on to do that are not interested in doing so, because they’re committed to promoting the vaccine above all other considerations, so they don’t want to produce any statistic that might be used to question it. So the bottom line is that we just don’t know. All we can do is guess, and try to rely on general rules such as “Shev ve’al ta’aseh odif”.
For all you Wacks!
NO SHE WAS NOT VACCINATED….
For all of human history until very very recently, children never got heart attacks. What changed?-
Until very very recently there was no technology to determine that someone was having a heart attack…. so pretty sure this applies for adults too….. so when u figure them out u will figure out Peds…
Seeing as most lakewood kids are not getting the vaccine, perhaps also contemplate maybe it was a side affect of covid.
Or we can just thank hashem for the nes and not turn everything into an agenda pusher.
To the idiot in a previous post who commented about vaccines.
A few points :
1. She was not vaccinated.
2. You’re a hopeless fool. You don’t know the people , the story, the medical facts. Yet you spew your worthless opinion that insinuated that the families decision had something to do with the illness.
3. As a relative , I cannot tell you how appalled I have been by the number of people who have asked if she was vaccinated. Both to insinuate that either her vaccination status or lack thereof was cause to what took place. To what level has the collective mind of our society deteriorated that such questions and insinuations are not understood to be highly inappropriate. It used to be that people had sensitivity. And a basic understanding that if you aren’t directly involved, and you don’t have medical knowledge , you have no opinion that’s meaningful.
Please ponder this point and think before asking and hurting people whose children are sick with stupid insensitive questions,
What YOU can do that is helpful is to Daven for all the Cholim in Klal Yisroel. Every Yid is qualified to do that, and Tefillla helps!’
Dear mods – I’m a close relative of the stern family. Please post the previous post. If you wants to change the word “idiot” in the first line to “people”, that’s fine
To Rif
Why does everything have to be blamed on vaccines. She happened not to have been vaccinated.
YWN you should be ashamed of yourself for allowing these previous comments.
It’s well known that the family has denied the allegation that she was ever vaxxed.
Hospitals are killing people…..Its time to open a frum Hospital.
Based on public information she didn’t get the vaccine. We don’t know if a vaccine would of avoided this health trama. Because it would be just speculating.
To Rif:
This girl was not vacinnated according to her parents. So why are you mentioning correlations that do not exist?
@rreuven, you wrote: “Hospitals are killing people…..Its time to open a frum Hospital”
It’s an interesting fact that some of the NYC hospitals with Jewish Origins (like Beth Israel) were started because many hospitals at that time discriminated against Jews and wouldn’t accept them.
Millhouse-firstly, incidence has gone up over the years. Number two, if someone is feeling ill and takes Tyenol and then feels better-we will also never know if it was the Tylenol that helped, or, they may have gotten better on their own regardless. And that can be applied to any treatment or lack thereof. However, when someone takes something and then has a positive/negative response to whatever it was that was administered, logic begs that in absence of other known variables, one MAY have caused the other. Just a disclaimer, I AM IN NO WAY saying that this is what happened here, just a general statement based on what you wrote.
So now that it was posted that the girl was not vaccinated, does this now mean there is a correlation between being unvaccinated and sudden cardiac arrest?
Instilling fear and furthering personal agendas is silly and inappropriate. Now that we know that vaccinations had no role in this kid’s event, should it have been that this child was vaccinated, it should not have been an immediate knee-jerk reaction to assume there is a correlation between the vaccine and the event.
For starters, if being vaccinated would be a factor in this, there would have been way more sudden cardiac arrests in this age group, not just one, which as pointed out is an exceedingly rare event, unless there are undiagnosed underlying structurally heart issues.
1. Yes, tehillim for the girl.
2. OK, so she was unvaccinated.
3. It is VERY PERTINENT to have the conversation regarding vaccination, because there IS A CORRELATION. The FACT remains that there is an inordinate number of children (and adults) suffering from heart conditions immediately following the vaccine, in particular Pfizer.
“Pre-Covid, the rates for myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) in children under fifteen was 4 cases per million per year with 86% resulting in hospitalization. According to a preprint study posted early January, the rates of myocarditis in children following the Covid-19 vaccine is staggering. For males 12-17 years old after receiving the second dose, the rates skyrocketed to 377.4 per million. For males 18-24 years old after the second dose, it was the incredible number of 537.1 per million.”
The letter from the parents missed an important הכרת הטוב to the physicians , nurses, respiratory therapists, hatzolah techs, and others.
Was she around vaxxed people? Spike proteins spread that way too.
I wish the girl refuah shleima. It may be we just live in times when such incidents get to press. There are rare conditions that happen sometimes. Furthermore, one would rather ask whether covid itself causes such complications. In the widely unvaccinated, uncareful community, the virus, with the variants, is bound to go through the community multiple times, and cause problems with some. So, time to thank Hashem for the nes and for forgiveness for endangering people.
I wish the girl refuah shleima. It may be we just live in times when such incidents get to press. There are rare conditions that happen sometimes. Furthermore, one would rather ask whether covid itself causes such complications. In the widely unvaccinated, uncareful community, the virus, with the variants, is bound to go through the community multiple times, and cause problems with some. So, time to thank Hashem for the nes and ask for forgiveness for endangering people.